A test of the signalling hypothesis

Oxford Economic Papers

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 191-215

  Chatterji, Monojit ^a   Seaman, Paul T ^a   Singell Jr , Larry D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN CAPITAL; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; RETURNS TO EDUCATION; THEORETICAL STUDY; WAGE DETERMINATION;

EID: 0037394222     PISSN: 00307653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oep/55.2.191     Document Type: Article

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